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A keen observer of the technological firmament, today, will observe a grand spectacle of diverse technological events. Some technological trends will blaze a trail and will become trend setters while others will vanish without a trace. The factors that make certain technologies to endure in comparison to others could be many, ranging from pure necessity to a coolness factor, from innovativeness to a cost factor. This article looks at some of the technologies that are certain to be trail blazers in the years to come. Software Defined Networks... [More]

IP Multimedia Systems (IMS) has been in the wings for some time. There have been several deployments by the major equipment manufacturers, but IMS is simply not happening. The vision of IMS is truly grandiose. IMS envisages an all-IP core with several servers known as Call Session Control Function (CSCF) participating to setup, maintain and release call sessions. In the 3GPP Release 5 Architecture IMS draws an architecture of Proxy CSCF (P-CSCF), Serving CSCF(S-CSCF), Interrogating CSCF(I-CSCF), Breakout CSCF(B-CSCF), Home Subscriber... [More]

Are we headed to an auction-based internet? The current state of technology and the
technology trends do seem to indicate such a possibility. An auction-based internet would be a business
model in which bandwidth would be allocated to different data traffic on the
internet based on dynamic bidding by different network elements. Such an
eventuality is a distinct possibility considering the economics and latencies
involved in data transfer, the evolution of the smart grid concept and the
emergence of the promising technology known as... [More]

You must have heard it
all by now – the technological trends for 2012 and the future. The predictions
range over BigData, cloud computing, internet of things, semantic web, social
commerce and so on. This post focuses on what seems to be significant hurdles as
we advance to the future. The positive trends are bound to continue and in our
exuberance we may lose sight of the hurdles before us. Besides, “problems are
usually opportunities in disguise”. So here is my list of the top issues that
is facing the industry now. Bandwidth shortage... [More]

While only roughly about 5% of the population has access to computers, more than 50% of the world population has mobile phones. Mobile phones have become cheaper and are more ubiquitous these days. Hence given the penetration of mobile phones it makes sense to use them for improving the lives of those in emerging economies. Two such technologies which hold enormous potential are m-banking and m-health described below. M-banking: Financial services, a key driver for economic growth, is either negligible or completely absent in remote rural... [More]